D, thanks for your input. We were all new here once. And most of us parallel your learning curve.
I came here in the middle of a firestorm. I guess I was initiated by fire.
I follow all of the tech talk, since the foto stuff is so inconsistant.
You too may benefit from a gallery where you don't have to wade past all the sleeping Grandkids in order to find something helpful, such as I am proposing.
Much of the forum has a few that get all the accolades, no matter how good or bad their work is. It's a tough way for others to learn anything meaningful, especially, when they are being told how great an image is, and its not. That makes it confusing and slow for learning.
In a winner gallery, all the photos have been prescreened by outside sources. So popularity here would not play into it. A foto would have had its own merits to be eligible.
I think, it would become a gallery for the many, and not just a chosen few. So there would surely be opposition by all those status quo people. You could have been here since day one, and not qualify, or be your first day, and are eligible to display, as long as your work is verifiable. More democratic that way.
D, thanks for the input, it's the kind of input that needs to be put out there. That's how we can improve this whole site.

D, yes, I knew exactly what you were talking about, good call.
And if I have not done so elsewhere, D, welcome to the Hog.
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